Nice pic 
Nice, I don't think I have seen a Finnish loadout yet?
looking good mate, only one question, are you wearing your trousers low on your hips or do you have the worlds longest torso?
40s pattern trousers shoudl be pulled right up and buttoned around the stomach well over the hips, yours look very low making your torso look overly long.
If you do have an overly tall torso my apologies 
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Yeah, get yourself some braces... it'll improve the look no end. As per usual Sabre probably have some. 
The postwar elasticated ones are ideal, but make sure you get very long ones since you're tall, they are sized by your height.
Other than that it's looking great!!
This is truly 'stitch counter' i'm afraid and i really hope I've got this wrong.... but... which way do you polar bears face on your insig.
The bears should face forwards to the front.
But other than that, cracking impression!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
This is truly 'stitch counter' i'm afraid and i really hope I've got this wrong.... but... which way do you polar bears face on your insig.
The bears should face forwards to the front.
Oo... shit you're right Gadge. 
You're not the first person to do that!
Took this impression for a spin a while back, A Normandy 1944 Ranger with a Shoot n' Scoot M1(based on a CYMA M14)
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Not a biggie to flip em though
Yup ten minute job. I've got to replace mine as i found some slightly better defined ones at the Derby show.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Took this impression for a spin a while back, A Normandy 1944 Ranger with a Shoot n' Scoot M1(based on a CYMA M14)
Cracking impression, thinking about doing something very similar...
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
nice ...needs some jump boots and not 100% on the pot net ..would look better with a dohboy on ya back as well but looking good mate
instead of getting jump boots i'd just rebadge. much cheaper
Now a 'namsofter. I have an M72 L.A.W. for sale for 110 posted, PM if interested.
well ya thay are 100 notes + but well worth it
Whats wrong with his footwear? Ive seen scores of pics of rangers with leggings and roughouts?
Rangers did cut there leggings down to five inchs in some units though.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
if doing the 5th rangers yes fine ..but most if not all 2nd had jump boots ,,leggings fine as well pre DDay for the 2nd thay ditched them after the point as most hated them ..LOL know how thay feal ..just in the group i am in we only use jumpboots ..and as i have roughouts i can ( and dont that much ) when doing 5th use them... am not haveing a pop ..just trying to help with what i know / have been told over the years of doing the reeinacting hobby ..am here to trty and help .. i know bugger all about airsoft weapons and how to make them run better and all that kind of thing ..but i do know about WW2 rangers /29th uniforms haveing read and lurned about them over the years ..i would never put any one down only try and help point them in the right direction ...we had some at pickering this year ..thay came just wanting to be part of it witch is superb ..but had payed £80 notes each to higher a uniforem for 2 days ..no pots ..thay was useing liners with nets on 
..had the webbing all rigged up wrong and it just sat on the chest and not roung the waist ..shirts was wrong ..and all had dogg taggs on the out side on show ..we had a chat with them telling them what we was and did ..thay saw us all and said we looked the muts nuts ..we changed all the webbing for them so it fit them better ..thay was over the moon with our help
is it a wool shirt hes got on or HBT ?//if wool get some wool trousers and that a fine 5th ranger look he got
Thanks for the feedback guys I appreciate it!
I have to be brutally honest I based my impression on Saving private Ryan (Ed Burnes specifically, I have a BAR also).
My kit list is: roughout boots, gaiters, HBT trousers (as I was told by SOF that they wore these instead of the woolen ones), M41 Jacket, woolen shirt, M1 steel pot with string cover, basic M1 garand webbing set with water bottle.
My helmet has the orange diamond with the black 2.
If they wore the old Para boots later on in Normandy then this probably should have been described as a D-Day loadout, my apologies.
I have to admit I would like to keep the orange diamond on the back of the pot, and the netting I have to admit was purely because Sgt. Rock has one and that a lot of the Kelly's Heroes had them!
So to be more accurate: loose the HBT's, get woolen trousers instead and lose the netting?
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
wool trousers ...wool shirt ... leggings roughouts ..orange diamond with a black 5 .m41 webbing and your be sorted for 5th rangers no worrys mate
2nd ..would say ..HBT trousers /shirt ..m41 webbing jumpboots no leggings ( leggings if pre dday )
if doing the 5th rangers yes fine ..but most if not all 2nd had jump boots ,,leggings fine as well pre DDay for the 2nd thay ditched them after the point as most hated them ..LOL know how thay feal ..just in the group i am in we only use jumpboots ..and as i have roughouts i can ( and dont that much ) when doing 5th use them... am not haveing a pop ..just trying to help with what i know / have been told over the years of doing the reeinacting hobby ..am here to trty and help .. i know bugger all about airsoft weapons and how to make them run better and all that kind of thing ..but i do know about WW2 rangers /29th uniforms haveing read and lurned about them over the years ..i would never put any one down only try and help point them in the right direction ...we had some at pickering this year ..thay came just wanting to be part of it witch is superb ..but had payed £80 notes each to higher a uniforem for 2 days ..no pots ..thay was useing liners with nets on
is it a wool shirt hes got on or HBT ?//if wool get some wool trousers and that a fine 5th ranger look he got
Whoah... paragraphs and punctuation are your friend you know?
In all seriousness. Thanks for the info, I know only a little about US kit as it pretty much leaves me cold. I tend to learn about specific units for articles and most ranger pics i'd seen to date had them in leggings and low boots. But always good to learn new stuff.
Cheers.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
LOL like one long rant then i come up for air ..LOL ... no anything ya need to know just ask know a hell of a lot on most US kit and can point the right way ,,,legging and low boots ..check whats on the arm ..if diamond then its prob the 2nd or 5th if scroll its the 1st i have seen sim pics as well i think so know where ya comeing from .90% of all 2nd ranger pics are in jumpboots and HBTS as thay was a short lived unit thay never went back to the uk ..unlike the 101st and 82nd rangers never saw the m43 kit as well
Good stuff.
Most my knowledge of the rangers comes from Anthony Katchers 'the american soldier' and a ruck of osprey titles
Was only joking about the paragraph thing, i thought you might have been posting from a mobile phone to be honest at first.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
